A man involved in a deadly shooting at a barbecue Thursday night in Mississippi was one of nearly 200 inmates pardoned by former Gov. Haley Barbour one year ago.

Calhoun County Sheriff Greg Pollan told FoxNews.com an argument quickly escalated into a fatal gunfight between Wayne Therman Harris and Chris McGonagill in Calhoun City, Miss. The shooting took place just outside McGonagill’s home, where he, Harris, and three other men were having a barbecue before things got heated between the two friends.

Barbour’s controversial decision to issue 198 pardons in his final days as governor drew national media attention last January. The state’s Attorney General Jim Hood challenged the legality of the pardons to the state’s Supreme Court, but eventually nearly all of the pardons were ruled to be legal.

"I pray no person becomes a victim of any of these pardoned criminals," Hood said after the court’s decision.

4. Buuuuuuuuuut...

Bottom line...he shot and killed a guy...and SEVEN time? Guess he wasn't out to just wing him...hopefully now he will go back to jail for murder.

"Harris, who received a full pardon from Barbour for the sale of marijuana, was shot twice in the leg. McGonagill was shot seven times and died during surgery at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, around 12:30 a.m. Friday morning."

6. The question I have is this...

If the guy had not been imprisoned, for selling pot, would he have been a person who would have killed someone. Going to prison is a traumatic event for a lot of people. They are often not the same when they get out. I'm just wondering.

12. Kathy CROWLEY would abandon all her husband and 5 sons for HALEY BARBOUR!1 n/t

16. The Press really needs to get up to speed on guns and cartridges.

From the source, "The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department is still investigating the case and no charges have been filed at this time. Officers are checking to see if the two men had licenses for the weapons involved, a .20 mm rifle and .9 mm pistol."

A .20 or .2 mm and a .9mm pistol???? Lets do the math, .2 mm = +/- about .008"............. .9 mm about .036", either two of the worlds smallest weapons or the writer needs help. As of now I am confused what the .20 mm gun was, it probably was the rifle, and my guess would be a .17 caliber or what we call a varmint weapon. I did a search for a .2 mm gun, I couldn't find anything that made sense. It couldn't be a 20 mm, now that would be ridiculous, about .8" or more than 1.5 times as big as a .50 caliber MG.

39. Hold on a second...

are you telling me that when two people have guns, we can't before or at the point of sale determine who is a good guy and who is a bad guy? Fuck. I think maybe we didn't think this whole thing through enough.

42. Have you seen anything about how either man acquired their guns, other than one retrieved it (the

.22 rifle) from his truck. At this point, we don't know if they purchased them, stole them, received them as a gift or even manufactured them. We don't know if they were owned by them or borrowed from someone else.

37. he was released in 2002

I was reading this as if Barbour's pardon had let him out, in fact he had already been out for 10 years.

Harris had served 14 months and was released in March 2002, according to Mississippi Department of Corrections spokeswoman Tara Booth.

He was legally able to carry a hunting rifle since Dec. 21, 2007, when he received a Calhoun County Circuit Court certificate of rehabilitation, according to Sinatra Cruthids of the Calhoun County Circuit Court.

It wasn’t until Barbour’s pardon that Harris had the right to bear all arms.